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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

We won the Jim Himes Pub Quiz!

UPDATE: More photos added below!

Jim Himes and (Himes' campaign manager) Maura Keaney pictured. Tonight's pub quiz for Jim Himes was a huge success. We had enough people participating to field ten teams!

Here's the winning team, "The Nay-Shayers Starring Connecticut Bob", featuring Mike and Tessa (they deserve credit for our team's name), Jon Kantrowitz (the only other guy in the room to run against Chris Shays), Leslie, Marion (not-pictured), and of course, ME! We managed to overcome near impossible odds to snatch screaming victory from the jaws of certain defeat!

Or, maybe we just got lucky.

One of the questions asked was what is Jim's middle name. I couldn't help myself and hollered "Hussein!", and got a big laugh. I was more careful this time around not to jokingly yell out answers inadvertently to bonus questions like I did in the first pub quiz (but really, who would have thought that "Milk of Magnesia" could actually be the answer to a question?)

Tessa pictured with Jim Himes. If you know anyone who hasn't yet contributed to Jim's campaign, please let them know that even a $5 donation will be a big help, because the number of unique contributors is important in fundraising. Of course, you can continue to contribute too, but please visit Jim's revamped website and tell your friends to drop a fiver on a true Democrat before the quarter ends on March 31st.

Congressman Chris Murphy stopped by and he made some remarks to the crowd in support of Jim. Chris is a good guy, and we need to make sure he stays in Congress.

Plus, he agreed to sit for an interview with me sometime in the near future. I'm looking forward to hearing his thoughts on his first term in Congress and the issues that face us.

That sounds like what Rosa Delauro told me. I don't buy it for a second. There is a Quid Pro Quo with the Dems and the Repiggies for some strange reason and I for one will not vote for our politicians who won't protect the Constitution and just do their jobs. Rosa lost me and with her refusal to back Kucinich's HR Res. 333 and for me it is a bellwether. Get it on the books even if it takes up the rest of his term.

Listen, there's nothing I'd like to see more than Bush being cross-examined in court, whether in the Senate during an impeachment trial, or in Federal criminal court after he leaves office.

If we manage to win big in November, I'm hoping to see the latter.

However, don't think for a moment that I'm not pissed off that more Dems didn't support the Kucinich proposal, especially when it was introduced last year when we had a chance of actually letting the process run it's course.

And I'm planning on asking Rosa about that the next time I talk to her.